"Come away, come away, death" - Shakespeare - Finzi - Ken Diemer

Baritone: Ken Diemer
Piano: Susan Wingrove-Reed
Audio/Video: Jeremy Austin
Setting by Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
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“Come away, come away, death”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4)
Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown.
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
To weep there!